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BTW, the Jupiter Ace and ZX81 both have excellent iOS emulators, written by Kevin Palser.
by krallja 5y ago
BTW, the Jupiter Ace and ZX81 both have excellent iOS emulators, written by Kevin Palser.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoAhh, nice. The Jupiter Ace is one of the great "someone really made that a product?" things, lost to history. It had a flimsy shell and bad keys from what I remember reading, but it's amazing it became a product at all. There's a lot more of this stuff going on again in the microcontroller world; perhaps partly out of reminiscence.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoDesigned by two of the people who designed the ZX81 and Spectrum. It was a nerd-fantasy product designed by two unusually clever people to scratch their own itch, with no thought to ecosystem, culture, media support, visual design, or product-market fit. And then it ran into production difficulties. They still managed to sell a few thousand, but it was never going to be a huge success. One of those unfortunate situations where high IQ - clearly available - didn't correlate with business sense.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoRight. Really utter madness in so many ways but a thing of its time. I am reminiscing right now about two whole volumes of the Orbis collectible magazine, The Home Computer Course. I believe I have a complete set stashed away; it has amazing photos of the insides of all of these machines, including the Jupiter Ace.